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CQERIGHT DEPOSIT. 



HOW TO HAVE 
DOMINION 



By 
Lillian De Waters 

Author of" How to Have Dominion, 
"Journeying Onward" 
"The Hidden Truth" etc. 



Published and for sale by 

LILLIAN De WATERS 

118 Forest Street, Stamford, Conn, 

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Copyright 1921 
By Lillian De Waters, 
All rights, including translation, reserved. 



DEC 30 1921 



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HOW TO HAVE 
DOMINION 

FIRST of all, let us consider: Who is it 
that has dominion? The answer is 
this: You and I have dominion or each 
individual has within his nature the power 
and the ability to rule and to govern him- 
self by and through his dominion over his 
thoughts. We should be crowned heads, 
not of Europe, or of Boston, but of ourselves. 
I am in receipt of hundreds of letters a 
month, all containing the same questions; 
How can I obtain dominion over sickness, 
discouragement, lack, sorrow, ignorance, 
sin? And the answer in the final analysis is 
the same for all, — get an understanding of 
Life, and then apply this understanding to 
your individual need. It is to tell you 
something of the how to gain this dominion, 
this true sense of thinking, feeling and liv- 
ing, that I^write this^book. 



I HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 

To begin with, if you really want good to 
come to you, then you will make a place for 
it. You must make yourself worthy of it, 
for the spiritual law is that like attracts 
like. You must understand that meta- 
physical science is the study of Life or true 
living and if you want healing from this 
science then you must be ready and willing 
to follow its law and its rule. 

When you go to a doctor of medicine and 
put yourself in his care, you expect to follow 
his directions, to take the medicines which 
he prescribes, eat the food that he recom- 
mends and follow his advice without ques- 
tion. Now, when you approach the science 
of healing which is not physical but which is 
meta-physical, you must also be willing to 
follow the rules laid down in this science 
if you wish to get its results in healing. The 
science of metaphysics is wholly mental, 
that is, it deals wholly with sense and 
thought. When one goes to a doctor of 
medicine for treatment the doctor examines 
the body and then gives directions regard- 
ing the care, treatment, etc., of the body. 

Now, in metaphysics it is the reverse. You 
may tell your ailments and your troubles 



HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 3 

to the meta-physician the very same as 
you would have related them to the medical 
physician but the meta-physician does not 
examine the body. From your conversa- 
tion with him, and from the disorder that 
you tell him is manifested in your body, he 
is able to give you the meta-physical diag- 
nosis of your case and to give you a pre- 
scription which, if you will follow in your 
thinking and living, will restore the sense 
of health and harmony to your mind which 
in return will be visibly manifested in the 
body. Contrariwise, if you do not endeavor 
to conform your thinking and feeling to 
that which is good and right and true, it is 
most likely that you will continue to think 
the very wrong thoughts that caused your 
trouble and not have your desire for healing 
fulfilled. 

For instance, suppose that an indi- 
vidual goes to a metaphysician for help 
and says, "I am hardly able to get around; 
there is poison in my body, pain in my 
limbs, etc., etc/', relating what some medi- 
cal doctor has told him and which he 
believes are the effects of the poison in his 
body. The metaphysician, after carefully 



4 HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 

listening to the patient's statements of his 
case, does not ask, "What have you been 
eating lately that has thus poisoned your 
body?" but he asks, "What are you thinking 
that results in the manifestation of poison 
in the body?" 

Suppose that the patient insists that 
he is thinking good thoughts only and 
that he has the right feeling for every- 
one. The understanding healer is not 
deceived by the statements of the patient 
for he knows that thought is cause, and that 
there could be no ill result unless there was 
some error of thought indulged in by the 
patient, though the patient may not con- 
sciously recognize that any sick thought is 
wrong. The healer explains this and also 
administers mental treatment to the patient, 
which is silent true thought, and the 
patient continues under his care for several 
days or weeks with no apparent change 
manifested. The patient may be a student 
of Truth and may insist that he is living 
and thinking to the best of his understand- 
ing and becoming discouraged because he is 
not helped, he may wander from one Mind 
healer to another, telling the same story to 



HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 5 

each, gaining no lasting relief, and finally 
saying that Christian Science has not 
healed him despite the fact that he has 
been faithful, and has given it a good trial. 

Now, what is the matter in a case of this 
kind? It may be this: Secretly the patient 
does have a sense of enmity against another; 
it may be in the form of jealousy or bitter- 
ness or condemnation or as previously 
stated, the error may be merely unrecog- 
nized sickly thinking, but whatever the 
specific form of erring thought may be, it is 
contrary to love and perfection, the divine 
Law, and because this individual will not 
admit his error and cease it and does not 
know how to correct his thinking and feel- 
ing, these wrong thoughts will continue to 
poison his sense of Life and this erroneous 
sense will continue to be manifested upon 
his body as illness, according to the law of 
Nature, Life. 

There have been thousands of instances 
where sickness was the result of wilful 
wrong thinking and feeling; others where 
the error was not recognized; and more 
where the metaphysician was not himself 
possessed with enough actual love and 



6 HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 

understanding of Life to teach and waken 
the patient to the right sense of his mental 
need and thereby heal him. 

You may say, "Yes, but I know of cases 
which were healed in a few treatments yet 
the patient did not mend his ways (thoughts) 
at all." It may seem this way on the surface, 
but it is not true else there would be no 
science to Life and no law governing Life. 

In the years past there have been 
cases healed because of the faith of the 
patient; he has gone to the healer filled with 
the mental conviction that he would receive 
his healing, and even though he was sinful 
in thought and in living and would not seek 
to make correction or restitution, he was 
entirely cured (freed) at that time from 
his trouble. But what happened? Was 
Truth (the true Law) defeated? Truth 
says: "Let the wicked forsake his way, 
and the unrighteous man his thoughts;" 
but, this individual, you say, did not forsake 
his erring thoughts and still he was healed. 
No, he was not healed (made whole), made 
immune from that and other ills. 

A month later or a year later or it 
may be years later there came a day when 



HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 7 

that trouble or perhaps some other trouble 
came to him. Again the patient goes to 
the healer for help but this time there is no 
response. Why? Because his sin (wrong 
thought) was not forgiven (recognized and 
corrected) in the first place, and he was 
cured for the time being through blind 
faith on his part and now comes the day 
(mental unfoldment) when he must waken 
to the law of Life if he would be whole 
(healed). Had the mental healer himself 
understood Truth clearly he would have 
made it plain to the patient at the start 
that evil thinking results in so-called bodily 
diseases and that the only positive antidote 
is harmony producing thoughts such as 
love, patience, kindness, goodness, etc. ; had 
the healer done his part in the beginning 
and the patient also done his, the help would 
have been permanent. Years ago there was 
more blind faith evidenced by the public 
in mental healing than there is today. 

That day seems to be passing, and now 
comes the period of mental unfoldment 
when an intelligent understanding of meta- 
physical science is being ushered forth 
into universal consciousness. Mental en- 



8 HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 

lightenment, intelligent reasoning, asking 
and answering questions is fast taking 
the place of blind belief and blind accept- 
ance and this change is a wonderful and 
satisfying proof of progress. 

It must be clearly understood that the 
body has no intelligence of itself; the belief 
that the cells are intelligent and because of 
this respond to right thought is not scientific. 
The body is not intelligent; it cannot think, 
move, feel nor act without the individual 
mentality; the body is the effect of Intelli- 
gence, the result or the manifestation of 
Life. If you build a house, the house that 
you build is not intelligent, but is the effect 
of conscious thought. If we have a sinful 
thought or a fear thought or an ignorant 
thought or feeling, in due time this false 
sense of life is manifested on the shadow 
(body). We call the thought that is in 
the mind an idea, and when we see what is 
called disease on the shadow or body we 
have been taught that it is a thing, yet 
really it is but the ill thought or the wrong 
idea of the mentality made visible. 

If you do not like the embodiment or wish 
to change its form you surely know that it 



HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 9 

would be a waste of time and effort to 
attempt to make a change in the shadow 
itself; however, there is a way in which you 
may cause the shadow to change, and this 
way is to make a change in the object that 
is casting the shadow. If you cut off a 
limb from a tree you cannot find this limb 
longer in the shadow of the tree; so, if you 
remove from your mind thoughts of sorrow 
or hate or fear you will also cause the 
shadow, your body, to show forth the 
change that has taken place in your men- 
tality. I speak not from theory but from 
experience and from understanding. 

Now what was happening when the in- 
dividual visited the healer and the disease 
was apparently removed from the body 
after a few treatments yet the patient had 
not been told to "sin no more" and he went 
forth and lived his life apparently as be- 
fore, yet without the same result of disease 
manifested ? Simply this: When the 
patient went to the healer he believed that 
he would be healed, that is, he went in full 
faith that the practitioner could and would 
heal him, and because of the changed belief 
he commenced to feel improved from the 



10 HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 

start. Directly he feels better he has the 
mental conviction "I am being healed"; he 
tells others how much better he is feeling, 
and for the time being this thought is up- 
permost in his mind, "I am feeling well," 
or "I am getting my healing," and so the 
shadow, his body, shows forth the change 
of thinking. 

Instead of showing forth the disease 
which the patient had been constantly 
thinking and feeling, the body now shows 
forth the great change that has taken 
place in the mentality, namely, the lack 
of disease or the absence of the dis- 
ease. But after a time, it may be days 
or years, the patient takes all now as a 
matter of course, and no longer are the 
thoughts of health uppermost or para- 
mount in his mind; again the thoughts of 
hate or fear or mental depravity of truth 
and love which were the original causes of 
his trouble become paramount in his 
thinking, and then comes the day when 
disease is manifest again. 

There is no longer any mystery attached 
to the healing work of metaphysics. If you 
wish to be well through Mind alone, and to 



HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 1 1 

remain healed and well, then you must pay 
the price; there is no other way. This price 
is, — know Truth (true thought); love 
Truth; live Truth (learn to apply true 
thought to daily living). This is the only 
sure and perfect way in metaphysical 
science. If you wish to be relieved from 
so-called disease, yet you are not ready to 
pay this price, then do not whine or com- 
plain if you do not get your healing under 
metaphysical treatment. Ignorance binds 
many, fear binds as many more, yet 
Understanding can be gained which will 
heal both ignorance and fear in the indi- 
vidual mentality. This understanding 
gives us our dominion. 

Experiences may be hard lessons to us 
yet these experiences are necessary at 
times. It may take the trial to develop 
our courage, strength and faith, but the 
joy that comes with overcoming (dominion) 
is greater than any other sense of joy on 
earth. The hymn says: "Nearer my God 
to Thee, nearer to Thee; e'en though it be 
a cross that raiseth me." It takes the 
"cross" to raise many. It is the cross of 
sorrow, sickness, trouble that turns many 



12 HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 

to the healing Truth that otherwise would 
not seek it at that time. As Truth or true 
thought is the healer, we can all begin from 
just where we find ourselves and raise our 
thinking to God, the standard of perfec- 
tion; then shall we find that our trials have 
been blessings. 

There are many who have studied meta- 
physical science, and not gaining a com- 
prehensible understanding of the subject 
are not able to advance as they would like 
nor are they able to instruct others; there 
are thousands who call themselves Christian 
Scientists and yet they cannot tell Science 
when they read it. They read a book 
which states Science correctly and clearly 
and yet because this book does not state 
Truth to conform to their blind belief of 
Truth, they say that the book is not true 
Science. If we have any real understanding 
of Truth, it enables us to recognize truth 
without a label. It is for us to know 
whether a book states Truth scientifically 
or not and we know this through our 
understanding of Science and not through 
any label at all. You should gain a sense of 
dominion, become an independent thinker; 



HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 13 

get out of prison and ask questions. You will 
never know the full joy of living; you will 
never realize the true sense of freedom and 
dominion until you are a Tree and independ- 
ent thinker. This is your birthright. It was 
the wonderful Paul who said: "I was free 
born"; are you free? do you think for your- 
self on this great question of Truth and Life? 

Do not be afraid to read books; read 
such books as are enlightening, instructive, 
uplifting. If you get but one idea of God 
or self that gives you new hope or a larger 
understanding, then the book has served its 
purpose as far as you are concerned. The 
time has come for us to open our eyes, to 
see for ourselves and no longer gaze through 
the eyes of another; if we let others do our 
thinking we are in darkness. Get away 
from old beliefs that bind and hold and 
keep you in mental unrest. 

You will never understand the meaning of 
dominion until you are through with idols, 
such as ceremony, ambition, creeds and 
authority. Some one who understands 
Truth sent this verse to me. 

"He is a slave, no matter the breed, 

Whether bound by a chain or bound by a creed." 



14 HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 

The cry of the hour is freedom. The 
thinkers of today are seeking freedom from 
all limitations, freedom from all restrictions, 
freedom to speak and to act upon ones own 
understanding of right; freedom to act out 
one's own sense of principle and justice, in 
simple words — freedom to be oneself. Be 
grateful and willing to accept Truth no 
matter where you find it or who gives it 
to you. Truth is Itself whether a black 
man or a white man utters it; whether a 
Baptist or Christian Scientist speaks it; 
whether a church member or an inde- 
pendent thinker writes it. This takes away 
all sense of personality attached to Truth 
and makes Truth universal and unlimited. 
Dear seeker of Light, claim this wisdom 
and this dominion and this freedom that is 
rightfully yours. Leave the limited view 
for the sense of the universal; leave the 
narrow, prejudiced, cramped outlook for 
the vision of the infinite. 

Each of us is individual. You cannot fill 
my place nor can I fill yours; everyone has 
a calling and no one can fill that calling 
but himself, therefore do not insist upon 
doing the work of another nor let anyone 



HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 15 

undertake to do the work that you should 
do yourself. Do not mind the opinion of 
anyone, for as you must have discovered 
opinion is changeable; today opinion praises 
one and tomorrow it blames that same one. 
A standing alone is the only mental posi- 
tion that gives complete satisfaction, a 
standing alone with God, the omnipresent 
and universal principle of right and of good. 
If you believe something simply because 
another said it, where is your individuality?^' 
Gain an understanding of Life for yourself, 
then you will know whether another is 
stating the science of Being correctly or 
not. All the wisdom that is given to the 
wisest is also given unto you, but no more; 
wisdom is universal and unlimited, like the 
air that we breathe. We can stand upon 
the summit of a hill and breathe in the 
invisible air that is full of sweetness of 
growing things, that is so clear and so pure 
that the very consciousness of feeling and 
breathing it exhilarates and inspires us, and 
yet no matter how much of the air we 
breathe in or how long we remain up on 
the hill we know that we are taking nothing 
away from anyone else, that the air is 



16 HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 

infinite, unlimited, universal, free. So also 
is infinite wisdom, love, joy, harmony, Life, 
Truth, Understanding. 

Be yourself, your wonderful, glorious 
Self; speak, live, act all the Truth that 
unfolds to you today. If you are progress- 
ing, your perception of Truth is constantly 
unfolding, enlarging, and as you live up to 
the light that you see today, more light 
(understanding) will appear to you to- 
morrow. If your thought is not unfolding, 
enlarging, then surely there is something 
wrong and you are not rightly working out 
your own salvation. When you know that 
you are thinking right, then stand; better 
to have the whole world believe you to be 
wrong when you know yourself that you 
are right than to have the world believe 
you right when you, yourself, know that 
you are wrong. 

Look to no one for blame or for praise; 
look to the "Spirit within" you for approval; 
herein lies the greatest peace, the greatest 
joy, the sweet satisfaction that one can 
ever know. To "leave all for Christ" 
means that you must do this; leave all 
thought or fear of public or individual 



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opinion blame or praise for the inner sense 
of peace and rest and glory; this sense is the 
spiritual sense or the Christ-consciousness. 
We are our own weavers in this great 
loom of Life and the threads are our 
thoughts whether good or bad. You cannot 
therefore be too careful of what you are 
thinking. If you send out a thought of 
criticism or unkindness or censure or hate 
toward another, how foolish you are! Do 
you not stop to consider that the thought 
that you are thinking is a thread that you 
are weaving in your own loom of life (your 
own experience)? The thoughts that you 
think, the thoughts that you speak, the 
thoughts that you feel, these thoughts 
comprise the world in which you live and 
move and have your being. The universe 
of Mind is big, yes, it is so big that it is 
infinite, yet you are not consciously living 
in this infinite universe; we live merely in 
the world of our own thinking and feeling. 
When you become convinced of this simple 
yet stupendous fact, then will you waken 
to the true sense of living, and when you 
get this true sense of infinite world and 
infinite Life then have you broadened your 



18 HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 

mental horizon so that you will begin to 
live away from the limited into the un- 
limited; away from the personal into the 
universal ; away from the sense of body into 
the sense of Soul, the sense of Being. 

This sense is not gained in a moment, 
and those who have caught but a glimpse 
of it are striving to gain a deeper hold upon 
it; if we would enlarge this sense, we must 
continue in constant practice, as a soldier 
of Truth, constantly thinking good, de- 
claring good, believing in good, standing 
for good. Live the life; nothing else will 
do; nothing else will completely satisfy; 
nothing else will be of any lasting benefit. In 
order to gain this sense of peace and of 
dominion, you must begin to train your 
thoughts. Stop and think of this fact: You 
are a King. Your mind is your Kingdom; 
Your thoughts are your servants. 

Suppose that there was a King who had 
thousands of servants employed to keep 
him happy, prosperous and well; suppose 
that a servant came to him and expressed 
an evil thought or came with a thought of 
dishonesty or revenge or disrespect, would 



HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 19 

the King waste words with him? No. He 
would discharge him at once. 

If you will try this method for even a day 
you will be surprised at the quick and 
wonderful results that it brings you. For 
instance, bearing in mind that you are King 
and that your servants are your thoughts, 
we will suppose that a servant (thought) 
comes to you saying: "You may well be sad 
and sorrowful now that your dear one has 
passed away and you are separated from 
each other forever." Are you going to 
reply to this servant, "Yes, I know that it 
is true and my life is ruined and my joy is 
gone"? No. Turn to that servant (thought) 
at once, and say to this servant: "You do 
not speak the truth about life and I do not 
believe in you. The word death signifies 
a cessation of Life and this cannot be; that 
which once lived never ceases to express 
Life; it is the soul or the individual him- 
self that lives and this soul or individual 
never ceases to live; I am separated from 
him in belief only, but we cannot be sepa- 
rated in Mind, that is, nothing can or does 
keep us from thinking of one another; and 
when I enter the same plane of progressive 



20 HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 

consciousness as he, I will see him again. 
Jesus said, "In my Father's house are many 
mansions," meaning that there are many 
states of consciousness in the infinite 
Nature, Life, and those who have passed 
through transition have merely entered 
another "mansion" where love and joy and 
feeling and form mean more to them than 
ever before. There is therefore no actual 
separation, the same Presence and Power 
and Truth and Love blesses and loves and 
heals and unfolds "there" as "here" and 
the consciousness of this fact brings not 
tears to me but great joy and comfort." 
The "unfaithful servant" therefore departs 
and already even while you have been think- 
ing these right thoughts, angels are minister- 
ing unto you, not one but many good and 
true servants (thoughts) have taken the 
place. 

Another servant comes with a different 
report, saying, "You are sick; certain 
organs of your body are diseased." Are 
you going to reply, "Yes, you speak the 
truth; you are a true servant"? No. Send 
such a servant (thought) away from you at 
once into utter darkness, for such a servant 



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(thought) comes not from Truth unto 
you. The life of every organ of your 
body is God, the One Presence and the 
One Being. The very power that you 
have to move and to breathe and to Be, 
this power is God, and this power is change- 
less and omnipresent. Fill your conscious- 
ness (Kingdom) with thoughts (servants) 
of peace and calm and courage and keep 
your mental gaze away from the visible 
appearance of disorder, which is but a 
seeming, erroneous and temporary state of 
manifestation, and hold your mental vision 
steadfast to the absolute, the changeless 
and harmonious state of Nature and Being. 
Thus you will find servants (thoughts) that 
will tell you of health and harmony and * 
peace in your Kingdom. 

And, what of the servants (thoughts) 
that come to you with reports of accidents, 
evil, trouble, discouragement, fear, etc.? 
Thrust them out of your kingdom, for they 
have no rightful place with you. Refuse to 
entertain them and instead, think the 
reverse thoughts. Claim your power, your 
dominion, your strength, your divinity, 
your life of harmony and peace, and these 



22 HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 

right thoughts that you think, they will 
establish the Kingdom of Heaven within 
you here and now. This self training, this 
sense of mastery and mental dominion can- 
not be gained in a few hours or days but is a 
matter of mental growth and unfoldment. 
I would not have you believe that I have 
attained, but that I am attaining, as Paul 
says: "I die daily", which means that all 
of us who are good soldiers should let evil 
servants (thoughts) die or fade out of our 
thinking day by day. Strength and power 
comes with our every effort if we are earnest 
and persistent and if we really and truly 
love the good alone. The fulfilment is back 
of every right and true desire else the desire 
would not unfold to you. It is your infinite 
Nature, God, that unfolds all good desire 
to you, and hence the fulfilment is possible. 

Some say, "If I could only get over this 
fear I would be all right," others, "It is my 
quick temper that bothers me," others, 
"If I did not worry so," and so on. This is 
where we must exercise our dominion. 

Such wrong thinking must be cast out. 
When you feel such thoughts as fear and 
worry, deny them admittance to the 



HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 23 

Kingdom of your mind which is the King- 
dom of God. Conquer these unruly 
thoughts in the secret, in the silence of 
your own soul. Stand a ruler instead of a 
slave. Go to work in real earnest not to be 
beaten by any opposing thoughts. There 
are only the limitations to us that we make 
ourself. Dissolve all foolish and wrong 
beliefs with the power of intelligence and 
reason. Nothing can put you down unless 
you put yourself down. Do not be gov- 
erned but be ruler of yourself. Bring your 
servants (thoughts) under subjection to 
you, the Ruler of your kingdom. 

Do not think that you need let go your 
faith in order to gain understanding; the 
right kind of faith culminates in under- 
standing. Develop more and more faith in 
yourself, in the God within you. Faith in 
good, brings peace and keeps the mind 
receptive to good. Without actually under- 
standing the why and the wherefore of 
thought (Mind) but through a pure, un- 
bounded faith and the soul's conviction 
that right and truth are omnipotent, I have 
passed through the sea of erring thoughts 
which divided, and I walked on dry land 



24 HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 

(succeeded) when it appeared to others a 
miracle; I have seen mountains of error 
disappear almost in a moment which 
seemed unsurmountable to those not be- 
lieving in divine Power; and so I say, keep 
your faith, your soul's conviction in divine 
Might and Right and add to it an intelli- 
gent understanding of Life and learn how 
to apply the laws of Mind, God, to every 
day life. 

Be persistent in your right thinking, 
feeling and living; you may not reach the 
goal of your desire all at once and you may 
more than once seemingly fall on this 
mental journey from ignorant sense to an 
intelligent understanding of God, but this 
is no reason for you to give up the fight, 
lose your faith nor stop your effort. Rise 
with renewed faith and endeavor and by 
and by you will accumulate more under- 
standing and power, more strength and 
courage and you will not pause in your 
mental progress so often. The birds of the 
air in their long flights pause to gain rest 
and strength and then take up the flight 
again. In our search for this absolute 
Truth we are each blazing our way through 



HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 25 

the forests of public opinions, so-called 
material laws, church-doctrines, constantly 
holding uppermost in thought our birth- 
right of dominion and power, our divinity 
and perfection. In this journey of mental 
unfoldment there are paths rough and 
stony; paths full of pitfalls and valleys; 
there is but one path that is straight and 
narrow. 

This path may not look so attractive 
to us as we start on its way, it takes 
faith and persistence and tremendous en- 
deavor to hold it, but dear friend it does 
pay in the end; this path is the path of right 
thinking and right living. It may be with 
bleeding footsteps that we enter it, and the 
path may seem dark at first, but if we hold 
fast to right thinking these very thoughts 
will throw a light on our way and soon we 
will be rested and strengthened, health and 
harmony will become more and more ap- 
parent in our experience and we will know 
that we are on a sure footing, the only 
Rock of true Salvation, the one- Way. Be 
vigilant; be patient; be loving; be strong. 
Consider the lilies how they grow, how they 
unfold a petal at a time, so have patience, 



26 HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 

for patience must have her perfect work, 
and how much more should we who are the 
highest order of Consciousness unfold our 
selfhood in all glory, harmony and sim- 
plicity. 

When you limit yourself to a mortal 
and material sense of life, you cannot help 
but manifest that sense of limitation. All 
things that appear to you as manifestations 
of God, good, at a certain stage of mental 
unfoldment were forever within your Mind 
to be expressed. This is the secret of 
demonstration, believe that you have 
already received in Nature the thing that 
you desire. When you find peace and poise 
in the realization of completeness, perfect 
Being, you are in heaven. All that is real 
is infinite Life and its infinite manifestations 
now and here. Millions have material or 
physical concepts of body but this does not 
change Nature's sense of the true body; 
millions believed the earth to be flat but 
this belief never created a flat earth. 
Nothing can change the facts of Life, God. 

Some may tell you that you are seeing 
this universe upside down, that you are 
looking through blue glasses; do not worry 



HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 27 

about it, for your common sense tells you 
that it is not so. All manifested Nature 
represents God, Life, Love in either mas- 
culine, feminine or neuter qualities. I am 
aware that many Scientists hold to the 
belief that we are humans or human beings; 
that this universe is an illusion or a counter- 
feit universe; that our bodies ar^ mortal and 
counterfeit. We will never gain the true 
sense of dominion if we hold to these wrong 
ideas of Life and self. Let us reason to- 
gether. There is a beginning to this science 
of Life, that is, we begin our reasoning with 
some definite and established facts such as 
the following: God is the one and only 
Creator; All creation was finished and was 
good; God is all and hence all must be God. 
If we wish to build rightly, then we must 
build upon this foundation. We should not 
think that we have to wait until we pass to 
the "next plane" before we see God's crea- 
tion; nor that we are humans now but by 
thinking certain thoughts we will evolve 
into spiritual beings. We are all spiritual 
beings now living in a spiritual universe, and 
we should think from this viewpoint. Since 
God is intelligence or Mind, then, God is 



28 HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 

the name given to the intelligent mental 
element; this mental element, — God, is 
ever being expressed or unfolded in the 
visible; all visible Nature, therefore, is the 
visible proof of the invisible, thinking, 
Life-element, — God. 

Now, when you look upon a tree for 
instance, do you see the real tree, do you 
see a counterfeit tree, or is there such a 
thing as a tree present at all? Do you see 
a thought of God, or do you see a thought 
of mortal mind, or are both you and the 
tree illusions? It is time that you apply 
your common sense and reason to this 
matter and break away from all mysterious 
nonsense that is taught and written on this 
subject. 

The life of the tree is God, the invisible 
mental element. We do not see this life, of 
course, any more than you can see my life 
or I can see your life; but there is a real tree 
as there is a real you and I and the way that 
we see a tree is the right way for us to see it 
at this stage of mental unfoldment ; the error 
lies in believing that the tree is a material 
growth, instead of a mental expression. 

The tree that you look upon is individual 



HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 29 

and has consciousness and intelligence; the 
visible tree that we see is omnipresent 
proof of the idea, tree, held in the infinite 
Consciousness; the tree that we see to- 
day may not be the full expression or the 
complete expression of the idea of tree in 
Consciousness but it is right and real and 
true at this period of Life unfoldment. To 
illustrate: A man forms an idea of a house 
in mind and works out every detail men- 
tally; then, consistent with the idea he 
begins to externalize the house that he 
already built or conceived in consciousness. 
Suppose that some one walked past the 
house one day as it was in the midst of 
construction; we will say that the founda- 
tion is finished, the sides are up, the roof is 
completed but the windows have not been 
placed, the floors have not been laid, etc. 
Now, what would you think if this passer- 
by paused and looking at this house said, 
"Pooh, that is only a counterfeit house!" or 
"That is not a real house," or "That house 
is but ^delusion,"? How foolish and how 
stupid you say, yet, my friend, it is just as 
gross ignorance to call this earth and all 
its manifested wonders and glories unreal, 



30 HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 

untrue and counterfeit. The manifested 
errors are unreal, untrue and counterfeit, 
but not the good, the beautiful and true 
manifestations of this Life. Paul said that 
we know of the invisible through the visible, 
and as we consider all the marvels of the 
heavens and the earth we can but exclaim 
with the Psalmist, How wonderful and how 
glorious are the works of thy hands! 

This book is altogether too small to deal 
more fully with this much abused question, 
but I wish to add that those who teach that 
all manifested Nature on this plane is not 
real, but counterfeit, and that in heaven 
(ultimate understanding) we will know the 
ideas without any form or shape, color or 
body, do not yet comprehend the fulness of 
infinite Nature, Life. If a thing had neither 
form, shape, color nor body, it could not be 
cognized. To be sure Mrs. Eddy said: 
"Thought will finally be understood and 
seen in all form, substance and color, but 
without material accompaniments/* The 
solution to this riddle is that she does not 
mean without any accompaniment as is the 
popular belief, but that we will no longer 



HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 3 1 

view the accompaniment (color, form, etc.) 
as material but as spiritual. 

A person wrote me as follows: "How 
can I consider my body spiritual when I 
know that I was conceived in sin by 
material parents?" Another writes: "My 
practitioner tells me that when a baby is 
born it is only more matter coming into 
the world." Oh, Christian Science! What 
crimes are committed in thy name! Waken 
dear seeker, and learn that there is no 
matter, that all birth is spiritual birth from 
the coming of the blade of grass to that of 
a baby boy or girl. The babe is not more 
matter coming into the world but more 
God coming into this world of expression, 
more Life coming from the universal into 
the individual. Never think for one 
moment that you were conceived in sin, 
but understand that all individual life is 
the result of Mind (thought) and hence is 
spiritually and naturally conceived, born 
and manifested on this plane. 

Many make of their troubles a great wall 
so that it is almost impossible for them to 
look over it. It puts us in mind of the 
verses of Stevenson wherein he tells of the 



32 HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 

little boy who lived in a garden which was 
surrounded by a high wall, so high that he 
could not look over it; for a long time the 
boy did not know and never even guessed 
that there was anything beyond that wall, 
because the wall was all that he saw. But, 
one day he chanced to climb the cherry 
tree which grew in the garden, and, lo and 
behold, he was able to view over the wall, 
and what a sight he beheld! A new world 
lay before his vision, — the river that made 
a "looking-glass for the sky," the roads, the 
people, the flowers and "pleasant places"; 
oh, what joy and wonder was his! 

It may be with you, dear friend, that you 
are looking at the wall instead of over the 
wall; if you continually look at what you 
call your troubles, the past experiences, the 
present seeming sickness, lack or sorrow, 
you erect a wall in your thinking and each 
thought that you think of this kind only 
makes the wall more solid appearing and 
higher. Stop right now looking at this 
wall, and look over the wall, into the great 
realities of Being, the facts of Life, and 
what is the vision? Why, you behold God, 
Mind, unfolding Itself! You see the One- 



HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 33 

Power holding all in perfect order and 
rhythm. You see the One-Life perfect in 
action, form and being. You see divine 
Love radiant with joy and delight over its 
own harmony of Being. Now, continue to 
hold your mental attention to this vision 
of Soul, hold it there until you get the 
feeling, the conviction that this vision of 
the real, of the true of the eternal, of the 
changeless, of the perfect is the one and the 
only true vision that perfect Life contains. 
Quicken your faith, strengthen your hope, 
inspire your courage until you are satisfied 
that no matter what the seeming, it is 
after all only a seeming. It has neither 
reality nor power, and hence you need not 
be afraid, and soon you will feel that your 
faith in this vision of Soul, the Truth of 
Being, your understanding and your love 
will become stronger and stronger, and 
when you think again of the wall you are 
encouraged to find that it is not nearly so 
solid or so high; and it is not long before it 
has disappeared entirely. The tree into 
which we climb we may well call the "Tree 
of Life," the Mind of right thinking, as it 
is from this tree, only, that we can mentally 



34 HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 

view the absolute. The aim of each of us 
should be to constantly climb higher, for the 
higher we climb the more wonderful, the 
more permanent and glorious is the vision. 

You may have heard of that wonderful 
story of the lion and the sheep, but it is so 
very pertinent that I will relate it now and 
bring out some of its deep lessons. At one 
time, so the story runs, there was a baby 
lion that lost its mother in the great forest 
and wandered away out into the open fields. 
It came to a mother sheep which had 
recently lost her baby lamb; the sheep and 
the cub made friends at once and the mother 
adopted the cub as her own offspring. 

As the cub grew, it took on the qualities 
of its foster mother; it learned through 
her to be gentle, to be timid and ever 
to be afraid of dogs. Time went on; 
the cub, though matured, still continued to 
manifest the mental characteristics of the 
sheep instead of the character of the lion 
which actually it was. One day, for you 
know there is always the "one day," — a 
wonderful thing happened. It was in the 
evening while stillness was creeping over 
the earth, — that wonderful hush of Nature. 



HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 35 

The sheep-lion was standing still looking 
off into the distance, off to the horizon 
where the great forest stood, when out of 
the forest came a great lion; he came forth 
into full view so that his wonderful form 
was strongly outlined upon the glowing 
horizon. The sheep-lion stood spell-bound; 
something held his gaze to that majestic 
form in the distance. Presently, the great 
lion gave out a call, a deep roar, and then 
something wakened in the heart of the 
sheep-lion, something touched him, and the 
lion in him came forth. Spontaneously, 
there swelled the answer within him, and in 
joy he uttered back the cry, not the sound 
of the sheep, but the roar of the lion. Giving 
his foster-mother a look of farewell he 
bounded off fearless, away toward the 
great forests and to the mighty lion, — his 
own home and natural element. 

Now, let us carry this lesson of Life into 
our own experience and see how it works 
out. We have all of us been educated more 
or less to believe ourself other than what 
we actually are. As Christian Scientists we 
have been taught that we have no power of 
our own; that we have no mind of our own; 



36 HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 

that we cannot think; that we have no 
life, no intelligence, but that we are mere 
image or reflection. We believed this; we 
curbed all desire to roam out into the great 
forests of independent ideas; we settled 
right down passively and submitted our- 
selves to be ruled and governed by others; 
we were told not to read certain books and 
to read certain other books, to follow 
certain rules and book of rules and we 
listened and obeyed. The sheep no doubt 
told the cub that the dogs would hurt 
him, and the cub, not knowing his own 
power believed it. 

One day, we somehow wandered into a 
bookstore where we had been warned not to 
enter, and, taking up a book, we com- 
menced to scan its pages. The contents 
held our attention; we read that we are 
greater than we had been taught we are. 
It sounded wonderful; it pleased us at once, 
and in our hearts we only wished that it 
were true. We read that we should not be 
limited by what anyone else says or does, 
but that we should wake up and do our own 
thinking; that we actually have mentality 
and that we can think; that we have life, 



HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 37 

that we have power. With great joy we 
clasp the book to us and take it to a teacher 
or a friend whom we believe far ahead of us 
in understanding, but what is our dismay to 
be told that the book is false teaching, and 
we are admonished to burn it, to destroy it 
at once. In other words we are told that we 
are sheep, and sheep we must remain. 

Disappointed beyond words, we go away 
and a shadow falls over our thinking; the 
spark of light is blotted out for the time and 
darkness seems blacker than ever. We 
follow what the teacher said; we burn the 
book, but the thoughts that we read in that 
book we find we cannot destroy; they 
cling to us; we can think of nothing else. 
Later, some one else comes across our path 
and tells us that the book was true science, 
and urges us to go back and get another 
copy and study it again. We decide to dis- 
obey the teacher; we read the book again, 
and as we do, something touches us } the mind 
in us awakesl We find that we are not a 
servant, nor a mere image ; we find that our 
substance is actually Life, Truth, Love. 
And we come into our own. 

According to the story, the cub was a 



38 HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 

lion all the time that it believed itself to be 
a sheep; so we were and always have been 
Spirit even while we believed ourself to be 
a mere shadow or reflection or image. 

It was Mrs. Eddy who said: "The final 
understanding that we are Spirit must 
come." (First edition S. & H. page 7.) 
Her words are now fulfilled. Also she said 
in the same book; "We are Spirit, but, not 
knowing this, we go on to vainly supposing 
ourself body, and not Soul." We are not 
sheep; we are not servants but Masters. 

There is a law of Nature, God, which 
cannot be set aside by any individual nor 
any book of rules. The law is this: We 
are each individual and we must each 
express our individual self, the self that the 
Nature in us is. The rambler in the rose 
garden climbs the wall; the honeysuckle 
gives forth exquisite fragrance; the grape 
vine bears grapes while the potato plant 
yields potatoes. Is there one of us that 
dare order the Climber to cease shooting 
over the wall and to behave like the 
American Beauty at the side of it? Do you 
not understand that the Nature of the 
individual being must be allowed self 



HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 39 

expression and not be suppressed by re- 
ligious by-laws? That there is but one 
Ruler, one Law-Maker over this whole 
universe and this is God, the one-Life- 
Nature, the infinite and indivisible and 
universal Spirit? How wonderful! With 
what rejoicing should we live and let others 
live in this universe of all God. 

When we hear of the commotion among 
the churches today it brings to mind the 
story of the two drunken men who were 
riding out on their horses; one of them 
toppled off his horse and fell into the creek 
with a splash. He called out to his pal, 
"Say, Pete, I heard somethin drop, what 
was it?'* It is a bad thing to be drunk on 
whiskey, but it is also bad to be drunk on 
theology and authority. 

Mrs. Eddy said that material organiza- 
tion has its perils and she was right; also, 
she said, "Continued organization hinders 
spiritual growth, and should be laid off";\ 
this many of us have proven true. Some of 
her other sayings are these: "When ma- 
terial organization has done its work the 
purely Christ method of teaching and 
preaching must be adopted." (Misc. Wr.) 



40 HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 

44 We have no need of creeds and church or- 
ganization to sustain or explain a demon- 
strable platform, that defines itself in healing 
the sick and casting out error. (S.&z H. 1st ed.) 

Let those who would drink of the living, 
healing waters of Life gladly surrender all 
false sense of self as sheep following a bell- 
wether regardless if that bell-wether is a 
certain religion or by-law. Think and 
reason for yourself, for the time for this 
thinking has come, and become mentally 
attuned to the demands of the Infinite, 
that you have dominion and are no longer 
slaves. Surrender your moods of selfish- 
ness and prejudice and accept enlighten- 
ment and understanding so that not only 
in theory but also in practice you will be a 
follower of the Master teacher. 

It is righteousness (right thinking), 
forgiveness, patience, love for Truth, 
repentance that brings the divine atmos- 
phere and the crown of rejoicing. En- 
deavor to keep your peace of mind at all 
cost. Remember, "he that ruleth his spirit 
is better than he that taketh a city." 

In the realm of infinite Life there is 
nothing material for all is of and from 



HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 41 

Mind. All that appears to be physical or 
material is really mental and metaphysical. 
In this ocean of infinite Life everything is 
finding its natural expression on this plane. 
Become conscious of the One-Life mani- 
festing itself in all real being; the One- 
Actor acting through all real things; the 
One-Mind unfolding through all indi- 
viduality its own ideas; the One-Love 
throbbing in every heart. 

Stand on the hill-top or in the valley, 
walk through the forest or across the 
meadow and listen to the voice of the 
Father-Life speaking unto you: "The 
mountains and the valleys show forth My 
strength and My stability; the waters and 
the land speak to you of the infinite 
capacity of My ideas unformed and 
formed; the flowers and the trees tell you 
of My love and My sense of beauty; the 
sun, moon and stars assure you of My 
radiance and My glory; the birds of the 
air convince you that thought can always 
be uplifted into the true sense of being; 
the animals give forth My mental char- 
acteristics such as strength, innocence, 
wisdom, confidence and so on; the tiny 



42 HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 

cloud that moves in the heavens to the 
revolving of the earth and the holding of 
the great planets in position is proof to you 
of My existence, My power, My activity, 
My greatness. Does not the very air that you 
breathe inspire you over the science of Being? 

"Behold thy life! Your individual being 
is not separate from Me but is Myself 
in that individual state of being. You 
are individual in your thinking but your 
life element is My life element; My mental 
element is your mental element; My sub- 
stance is your substance — thus is your life 
eternal, your true Mind divine and your 
love transforming. I am Alpha and Omega, 
the only real Cause and effect, the Supreme 
and the Only, the universal and the indi- 
vidual. Nothing opposes Me for I am the 
ALL, and you are an individual particle of 
Myself, ye in Me and I in you." 

Beloved, your love for Me and the un- 
folding of your reason and understanding 
will reveal to you your infinite possibilities 
glories and dominion, yea, the realities of 
your Being/' 



HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 43 

REMEMBER 
Remember to love and to love abundantly 
and freely. Love purifies, cleanses and 
heals. Love the wonderful science of 
your Being and let it inspire you to press 
on and to achieve. 

Remember to be grateful and to express 
your gratitude. If you fail to express 
your love and your gratitude to those 
who have pointed the Way to you and to 
those who have helped you, you are like 
the plant that has not yet blossomed 
but still selfishly holds its perfume in the 
undeveloped bud. 

Remember that all that loves rightly mani- 
fests divine love; all that lives rightly 
manifests the One-Life; all that thinks 
rightly manifests the true Mind. 

Remember to lay down all sense of burden 
for infinite and adorable Life is not a 
burden bearer. Love your work and it 
becomes play. 

Remember that you are a link in this great 
chain of infinite Being. Life would not 
be complete without you. 



44 HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 

Remember that the unfoldment of your 
soul is the only growth worth while. Life 
will become a success to you when you 
become a success to yourself. 

Remember that thinking good, speaking 
good, feeling good is true prayer. As 
Emerson says: "Prayer is the contem- 
plation of the facts of life from the 
highest point of view; It is the soliloquy 
of a beholding and jubilant Soul; It is 
the Spirit of God pronouncing his works 
good." 

Remember to love right thought and be- 
come inspired with its wonder and 
power. "My words (thoughts) shall 
never pass away." Right thoughts are 
the active force of Mind (God), use 
them freely and thus love for right 
thinking will become natural and spon- 
taneous. 

Remember the harder the lesson the greater 
the need for a strong faith and a pure 
love and a clear understanding, and also 
the greater is the blessing when we have 
succeeded. 



HOW TO HAVE DOMINION 45 

Remember, Some feet will tread all heights 
now unattained. Why not thine own? 
Press on! Achieve! Your dominion is 
ever within thee, waiting your command 
to set you free. 



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